Skay
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/skeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Skay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Aberdeens and Banffs. of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname from Scottish Gaelic sgagaire ‘coward’.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 335K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 679K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 335K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Aberdeens and Banffs. of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname from Scottish Gaelic sgagaire ‘coward’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Skay counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 765K | — | Skay | 6 |
| US United States | 191 | 1 in 1.7M | 191 | Skay | 115 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 679K | — | Skay | 5 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Skay | 8 |
| IT Italy | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Skay | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Skay | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Skay is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, (ppj i . bran chiae, gills (of fish). 2. n. fibrous tissu e of palm stem, or coconut shell; husk. coconut husk; somewhat humorous term for Vietnamese
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Brigitte Skayb. 1940DEGerman actress (1940-2012)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 191 | #95,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 191 | #89,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 182 | #104,723 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Skay mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Aberdeens and Banffs. of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname from Scottish Gaelic sgagaire ‘coward’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Skay?
- A machine transcription gives /skeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Skay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Skay in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skay.
- How common is the name Skay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 191 people named Skay in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skayThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Skay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.